So to stop notifying your friends about the profile picture update, go to your timeline immediately after changing your profile picture or view your activity log.You will then see your own picture saying you have changed your profile picture.Just drop down the post at the top right corner and then select hide from timeline which then hides the profile picture from your timeline and your friend’s timeline.Facebook provides some strict privacy settings for you to hide several things from showing it to the world.Here is how you hide your friends list from public and here is how to hide your Facebook posts from public and friends.

So how about hiding profile picture notifications in Facebook?

There is no actual setting to hide profile picture notifications, but here is a simple solution to update Facebook profile picture without notifying everyone.

Also read: How to download Facebook photo albums You can stop two things that is the notification that your friends see on their timeline whenever you change your profile picture and hiding your profile picture that is preventing public or friends from enlarging the profile picture.

First update your profile picture as you would normally do that is go to your profile page and then add a profile photo or update profile picture.

After choosing your photo and cropping it, you will see an option like stop notifications at your right side which has nothing to do with.

This stop notification option will only stop you from getting notifications that is when someone likes or comments on your profile picture, but not your friends.